Quotes About Self-preservation

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

It goes a bit like this," Irene said, as they walked towards the stairs. "The first step is, I'll kill myself before I let him do that to me again. The second step is to say, Wait, it'd be much more practical to kill him rather than kill myself. And there you have it. A sensible plan based on logical choices.

Do you know what body armor says about a guy? It says he needs body armor.

Ech man for hymself.

The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

Vampire worldview, condensed into three sentences: If it's not food or a pet, kill it, because it might be poisonous.

People never wanted to tell me their life stories. They usually scooted out of my way and said things like, "Take whatever you want; just go.

People lie for many reasons: to save themselves, to get out of trouble, to avoid hurting someone's feelings. Manipulators lie to get what they want. Narcissists lie to make themselves seem grand to others and themselves. Recovering alcoholics lie to safeguard their tattered reputations. And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible.

Your ego would survive an apocalypse." "Thank you." "It wasn't a compliment." "It was to me.

Well, you don't get to have any of my bullshit. I'm keeping it." Okay, and that didn't sound childish. Not at all.

But I wanted to make what was terrible so much worse so as to be sure that it was fatal; like Hartley protecting herself by thinking I must hate her.

Quien bien te quiere te hará llorar, dice el refrán. Yo soy la prueba viviente de que es lo mejor. A ver, que a mí nunca me verás tener problemas de ninguna clase con la poli desde hace ya mucho. Me aprendí la puta lección: no me meto en líos y los evito todo lo posible. Lo único que le pido a la vida es beber un poco, el fútbol y echar un polvo de vez en cuando.

Concerning the blindness and bigotry of people, the pleasures of hatred rise superior even to the instinct of self-preservation.

Öylesine gülünç olacaks?n?z ki herkes bir hiç olduÄŸunuza inanacak. Bunun da tek amac? hayat?n?z? korumak... Gerçekten yaÅŸanmaya deÄŸer olup olmad??? ÅŸüpheli olan hayat?n?z?...

Conociendo bien su destino, se cuidaba de las mujeres y a lo largo de su vida huyó de todo contacto sentimental, secando su corazón para el amor y limitándose a encuentros rápidos para burlar la soledad

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

I don't think anyone should try to put themselves in a situation or push themselves out of the zone that they don't feel comfortable and safe in.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.